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Sunday, 30 April 2017

April
29, 2017: A VERY large, powerful storm system is forming over the
United States stretching from New York all the way back to the Texas
Panhandle. Resembles a unusual "energy rush" of some sort.
This system, based off of these satellite images has the potential to
create some very intense
storms.#superstormhttp://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/comp/ceu...#MrMBB333

Great
9 minutes of education on the consequences of the loss of sea ice and
the subsequent release of methane.

Cameos
from Stuart Simpson who describes the Arctic sea ice as decaying
exponentially, and that it could be gone as soon as this year and
Peter Wadhams who doesn't believe that industrial civilisation can
survive a 50 gigatonne discharge of methane. Both are members of the
Arctic Methane Emergency Group).

That
50 gigs equates to 10 times the amount of methane in the atmosphere
than today,that would effectively double the atmospheric burden of
carbon! Try and get your head around that this Northern Hemisphere
Summer?

The
thermostat is broken folks. It will runaway in an exponential, non
linear way.

Since
the year 2000 we have had 16 of the 17 warmest years ever recorded,
with 2016 being the warmest yet. As March almost ends it becomes
clear that the ice caps are not the same as they once used to be. They are shrinking dramatically fast and are not following a linear
equation anymore, but rather an exponential one. It is predicted that
on the current course we could have an ice free arctic by as soon as
the summer of 2017, and 2020 at the LATEST. This is a very bad
situation, as the polar caps act as the earth's air conditioners and
help to keep the planet cool. Also underneath the frozen Arctic lies
a massive methane reserve, which if released by the melting
permafrost will release enough methane into the atmosphere to kill
all life on earth and render it inhospitable. Will the human race
wake up to the imminent threat in time or will we continue to be
blind and ignorant until it's too late?

I
used to read everything George Monbiot wrote but after he embraced
nuclear power days after the Fukushima catastrophe and then disavowed
Peak Oil, proving he never understood it, I have gone right off him.

Now
he writes (mostly) the same tosh that the Guardian publisises.

Media
Lens skewers Monbiot’s Syria nonsense

The
always incisive people at Media Lens have just done an excellent
jobexposing
the most recent media campaign for a NATO invasion of Syria as the
dangerous, sub-intelligent nonsense it is.

The
particular focus of Media Lens’ recent piece – “An
Impeachable Offence”
is – deservedly – the prize nincompoop George Monbiot, who shall
forever be remembered for declaiming in a cringeworthy tweet “Do
those who still insist Syrian govt didn’t drop chemical weapons
have any idea how much evidence they are denying?” –
and then linking to a Medium article citing Eliot
Higgins,
aka “Brown Moses”, ex-admin for an underwear firm, as the source
of incontrovertible proof!

(Note
to George:don’t
skim read before going public).
But in case Monbiot doesn’t yet realise the depths of foolishness
he has plumbed, Medla Lens reminds him and us:

In
a 2014 letter to
the London Review of Books, Richard Lloyd and Ted Postol, described
by the New York Times as ‘leading weapons experts’, dismissed
Higgins as

a
blogger who, although he has been widely quoted as an expert in the
American mainstream media, has changed his facts every time new
technical information has challenged his conclusion that the Syrian
government must have been responsible for the sarin attack [in
Ghouta, August 2013]. In addition, the claims that Higgins makes that
are correct are all derived from our findings, which have been
transmitted to him in numerous exchanges’

There’s
no excuse for anyone of Monbiot’s public stature giving credit to
the entirely discredited Higgins, whose work has been repeatedly
debunked. He’s – at best – an ungifted amateur with no training
and little ability, promoted by the media and government intel
agencies in need of a willing patsy to push stupid claims they don’t
want to author directly. Even the full backing of the Establishment
can’t conceal his ineptness, which continues to be manifest every
time he releases another “analysis.” His bungling attempts to use
the free photo analytic programme Foto Forensics to “prove” his
claims of Russian fakery were heavily
criticised and
described as “how
not to do image analysis”
by the creator of the programme.

Higgins
himself doesn’t allow any such reality-based critiques to get him
down. He lives happily in the media bubble created for him and
believes his own nonsense. When Theodore Postol, professor emeritus
of science, technology, and national-security policy at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, challenged the claim that the
Assad government had perpetrated the chemical attack on Ghouta in
2013, Higgins, unemployed office admin, apparently dismissed the
criticisms as “amateurish”.
Perhaps ultimately he can’t be blamed for such extremes of
narcissistic delusion, but those – like Monbiot – who persist in
quoting him and using his MS Paint-based “analyses” as an
argument for a very dangerous war, have no such excuse.

Postol
issued a very
damning analysis of
the recent White House claim regarding the alleged sarin attack in
Idlib. As with the Ghouta incident it so closely resembles, Postol
points up the numerous flaws and failures of the official position
that rules Assad’s guilt beyond doubt.

But
neither Monbiot nor any western journalist who happily source
Higgins, appears aware of those criticisms, or the comparable
sceptical analyses published by Philip Giraldi, Scott Ritter and Hans
Blix. To quote Media Lens again:

Our
search of the Lexis database (April 26) finds that no UK newspaper
article has mentioned the words ‘Postol’ and ‘Syria’ in the
last month. In our April 12 media alert, we noted that former and
current UN weapons inspectors Hans
Blix, Scott
Ritter and Jerry
Smith,
as well as former CIA counterterrorism official Philip
Giraldi,
had all questioned the official narrative of what happened on April
4. Lexis finds these results for UK national newspapers:

‘Blix’
and ‘Syria’ = 0 hits

‘Ritter’
and ‘Syria’ = 0 hits

‘Jerry
Smith’ and Syria = 1 hit

‘Giraldi’
and ‘Syria’ = 0 hits.

Is
there any better evidence that our press is not free and what we see
in our feeds and on our TVs is not “news” but absolute uniform
and state-generated propaganda?

For
a bunch of peace loving, tolerance spewing social justice warriors,
it sure does appear that the new “progressive” movement in
America is rapidly turning to Bolshevik tactics to force their
will upon a free and non-violent people

The
latest example of a society
on the brink of civil war comes
to us from Portland, Oregon, where
every year the 82nd
Avenue of Roses Business Association kicks
of the city’s annual Rose Festival with a family-friendly parade.

Except this year, there
will be no parade. Organizers have cancelled the event amid threats
of violence from groups referring to themselves as “Anti-Fascist.”
According to The
Washington Post,
the reasoning behind the threats is reportedly outrage over the
fact that the county’s Republican Party was given one of the
nearly 100 spots in the parade

Then came an
anonymous and ominous email, according to parade organizers, that
instructed them to cancel the GOP group’s registration — or else

“You have seen how much
power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from
shutting down roads so please consider your decision wisely,” the
anonymous email said, referring to the violent riots that hit
Portland after the 2016 presidential election, reported the
Oregonian. “This is nonnegotiable.”

The email said that 200
people would “rush
into the parade” and “drag and push” those marching with the
Republican Party.

“We will not give one
inch to groups who espouse hatred toward LGBT, immigrants, people of
color or others,” it said.

Earlier this month we
reported that members of the so-called anti-fascist, left
leaning progressive
movements are preparing for war by
organizing combat fighting classes and even going so far as to
suggest it’s time to start bringing guns to such protests as a show
of force:

In short, as
predicted, they are turning
to militancy and mob action by
mobilizing individuals and groups to attend combat training seminars,
acquiring better equipment like baseball bats and helmets, and of
course, if things really go bad… guns

Yes, we
seemed to have lost today. The alt-right held their ground. If we
wanna take action against them, we need to be better organized and
better trained. It doesn’t help that it’s only the far left
opposing them, any trump supporter can be radicalized far easier than
any liberal.

I hope we
learn from today

…

A shocking
number of our comrades went
in there with absolute no combat training. We need to set up seminars
or something of the sort.

While these folks may
think silencing the free speech of political ideologies contrary to
theirs through violence is a means to a worthy end, it was the
Bolshevik ideology, similar to what we’re seeing from “comrades”
in the anti-fascist movement, that eventually gave way to one
of the world’s most brutal dictators and was responsible for the
deaths of, quite literally, over 100 million people in the 20th
century.

On another and perhaps
equally interesting note, we’ll mention the fact that for years the
Department of Homeland Security and domestic law enforcement agencies
had warned Americans that it was lone wolves with conservative values
who stockpiled guns, food, bibles and peacefully protested government
overreach who were, by officials and congressional members, deemed
terrorists.

The
Fed Goes All In To Crash The Economy

South
Korea goes cashless, they are getting rid of coins. Consumer
confidence steady despite all the bad news. US spending way down,
this makes up 70% of the economy, but American's are buying RV's. GDP
collapses to .7%, this is the manipulated number, the real GDP is in
the negative range. Government shutdown looms, and congress decided
to vote for a stop gap which will allow the government to continue to
operate for 1 more week. The Fed signals that the economy is still
strong and will continue with rate increases because they believe it
will bounce back in the 2nd quarter

From Tanks at Civilians: Ukrainian Forces Fired 50 Times at Donbass in 24 Hours

Vesti
News

9
DPR residents were injured this week due to shelling by Ukrainian
officials and explosions, set up by the operatives. It was announced
yesterday by the Republic spokesman Eduard Basurin. Just in the last
24 hours Ukrainian army fired over 50 times. Aleksandr Bilibov is
reporting with details from Donbass.

Buoyed
by a total of 18 speculative verb forms -
five “mays,” eight “woulds” and five “coulds” - New York
Times reporters David E. Sanger and William J. Broad
(4/24/17) painted
a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the
growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons.

“As
North Korea Speeds Its Nuclear Program, US Fears Time Will Run
Out” opens
by breathlessly
establishing the stakes and the limited time for the US to “deal
with” the North Korean nuclear “crisis”:

Behind
the Trump administration’s sudden urgency in dealing with the North
Korean nuclear crisis lies a stark calculus: A growing body of expert
studies and classified intelligence reports that conclude the country
is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

That
acceleration in pace—impossible to verify until experts get beyond
the limited access to North Korean facilities that ended years
ago—explains why President Trump and his aides fear they are
running out of time.

The
front-page summary was even more harrowing, with
the editors asserting there’s “dwindling time” for “US
action” to stop North Korea from assembling hundreds of nukes:

From
the beginning, theTimes frames
any potential bombing by Trump as the product of a “stark calculus”
coldly and objectively arrived at by a “growing body of expert[s].”
The idea that elements within the US intelligence community may
actually desire a war—or at least limited airstrikes—and thus may
have an interest in presenting conflict as inevitable, is never
addressed, much less accounted for.

The
most spectacular claim—that North Korea is, at
present, “capable
of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks”—is backed
up entirely by an anonymous blob of “expert studies and classified
intelligence reports.” To add another red flag, Sanger and Broad
qualify it in the very next sentence as a figure that is “impossible
to verify.” Which is another way of saying it’s an unverified
claim.

When asked
on Twitter if
he could say who, specifically, in the US government is providing
this figure, Broad did not immediately respond.

Other
key claims are either not attributed or attributed to anonymous
“officials” (emphasis added):

Unless
something changes, North
Korea’s arsenal may well hit 50 weapons by the end of Mr. Trump’s
term, about
half the size of Pakistan’s. American
officials say
the North already knows how to shrink those weapons so they can fit
atop one of its short- to medium-range missiles — putting South
Korea and Japan, and the thousands of American troops deployed in
those two nations, within range.

To
offer a bit of outside perspective, Sanger and Broad interview
Siegfried S. Hecker, a Stanford professor who directed the Los Alamos
weapons laboratory in New Mexico in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
The only time he speaks directly to the threat, he does so in the
context of a nuclear accident:

At
any moment, Dr. Hecker said on a call to reporters organized by the
Union of Concerned Scientists, a live weapon could turn into an
accidental nuclear detonation or some other catastrophe.

“I
happen to believe,” he said, “the crisis is here now.”

Hecker
and other semi-neutral observers (Hecker worked for the Department of
Defense for several years) are understandably worried about more
nuclear weapons in the aggregate, especially in the hands of a
relatively poor country with a long
history of
botched missile attempts. But who, exactly, is making the article’s
most alarmist predictions? It’s unclear.

Naturally,
the specter of North Korea creating an assembly line of nuclear
weapons—by far the sexiest part of the story—was the lead in
subsequent write-ups. Within hours, this meme spread to a half-dozen
other outlets:

“North
Korea’s Growing Nuclear Threat, in One Statistic”

Here
is the most frightening thing you’ll read all day: Growing numbers
of US intelligence officials believe North Korea can produce a new
nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.

Even New
York Times columnist
Nick Kristof jumped on the meme, magically turning “capable of
producing” into “will soon be churning out”:

But
from whence did this meme come? Who, exactly, made this claim? Is
there any dissent within the community of “experts” on this
prediction? Is there an official document somewhere with people’s
names on it who can later be held accountable if it turns out to be
bogus?

Once
again, the essential antecedents of war are being established based
on anonymous “experts” and “officials,” and hardly anyone
notices, much less pushes back.